| > At the top we have a crown, who's crown, the (imported) House of Windsor? I don't know? It's not a crown but a coronet. Coronet are a heraldic device to symbolise noble ranks, including those of the royal family. In British usage a coronet of crosses and fleur-de-lis symbolises a child of the sovereign. One could quibble about another detail: traditionally Charles’ coronet as heir apparent is displayed with a single arch. Crowns have two or more arches. That single arch is almost not there apart from the green arch formed by those interlocking circles of the seal. Btw: It’s seems a bit silly to call the House of Windsor or Saxe-Coburg and Gotha “imported”. Queen Victoria of Hanover married, her son and heir took the “house” from his father, that’s pretty much it. What’s far more annoying was the patriarchal habit that “houses” go with the father’s line, at least until EIIR and Philipp. Btw 2: Isn’t every British and English royal house “imported”? Hanover was imported from Germany, based on distant descent from James’ VI/I second child and of course protestantism. Stuart was imported, based on distant descent. Tudor … imported and invented themselves, based on distant descent. Plantagenet was Angevin, meaning from Anjou in France, because Geoffrey of Anjou married Matilda. Normandy imported themselves, because of distant descend from Wessex. Denmark is Denmark. Wessex is homegrown, apart from the whole “sex” part. |